This Saturday October the 19th, Rosetta and PanLex Project staff will be at the Exploratorium’s final Market Days event of this year. The Exploratorium has been holding these free, outdoor events in the spirit of “exchanging fresh ideas on local phenomena.” Saturday’s theme is Heirlooms and Rosetta and PanLex will showcase our planet’s diverse linguistic stock.

Come to the Rosetta / PanLex Project booth where you can:

• Learn about the thousands of languages spoken around the world, why many of them are endangered, and why this is important for everybody.
• Learn how you can make and archive language recordings that document the languages used in your family, classroom and community.
• Use the PanLex tattoo generator to make a temporary tattoo using words from thousands of languages around the world.
• See a real Rosetta Disk – an archive of thousands of the world’s languages that read with a microscope, and can hold in the palm of your hand.

The event runs from 11:00am to 3:00pm at the Exploratorium’s new location at Pier 15.